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The Bitter Tea of General Yen


Year: 1932


Genre:

Drama, Romance, War


Category: Movie


IMDB Rating: 7,1 (NEVAZUT)


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Country: USA


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Director: Frank Capra


Writer: Grace Zaring Stone, Edward E. Paramore Jr.


Composer: W. Franke Harling


Producer: Frank Capra, Walter Wanger


Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Toshia Mori, Walter Connolly, Gavin Gordon, Lucien Littlefield, Richard Loo, Helen Jerome Eddy, Emmett Corrigan, Jessie Arnold, Clara Blandick, Robert Bolder, Nora Cecil, Wong Chung, Knute Erickson, Willie Fung, Adda Gleason, Ella Hall, Daisy Jefferson, Arthur Johnson, Tetsu Komai, Eddie Lee, Milton Lee, Lillian Leighton, Harriet Lorraine, Doris Louellyn, Martha Mattox, Arthur Millett, Moy Ming, Miller Newman, Robert Wayne, Ray Young


Description: The American missionary Megan Davis arrives in Shanghai during the Chinese Civil War to marry the missionary Dr. Robert Strife. However, Robert postpones their wedding to rescue some orphans in an orphanage in Chapei section that is burning in the middle of a battlefield. While returning to Shanghai with the children, they are separated in the crowd, Megan is hit in the head and knocked out, but is saved by General Yen and brought by train to his palace. As the days go by, the General's mistress Mah-Li becomes close to Megan and when she is accused of betrayal for giving classified information to the enemies, Megan asks for her life. The cruel General Yen falls in love for the naive and pure Megan and accepts her request to spare the life of Mah-Li against the will of his financial advisor Jones. Meanwhile Megan feels attracted by the powerful and gentle General Yen, but resists to his flirtation. When Mah-Li betrays General Yen and destroys his empire, Megan realizes that to be able ...


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Duration: 88 minutes (at 25 frames per second)


File path: Z:\05122 - The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)\The Bitter Tea Of General Yen.avi


Filesize: 699 MB


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Subtitles: English